/.../ Following the natural order of things, Herman Potočnik Noordung Memorial Room will through »Spominsko središče Hermana Potočnika Noordunga/Herman Potočnik Noordung Memorial Center« (SSHPN/HPNMC) evolve into the »Kulturno središče evropskih vesoljskih tehnologij/Cultural Center of European Space Technologies« (KSEVT).
KSEVT shall become a platform for combining art and science and shall, furthermore, with its transnational program add to the local cultural and social activities already existing in the Vitanje House of Culture. On the KSEVT premises the historical astronautic memory of Europe and contemporary european astronautics will be presented to the visitor. Taking interest in space is closely connected with the development of social patterns in the modern society. The activity of KSEVT is making active cooperation with the civilization's struggles on space topics possible in an unique way – with culture and art. General public will be, according to the program, presented with broad and detailed contexts that create possibilities for research in terms of space and the accessibility of such research.
The new object will represent a culturally-scientific center in Vitanje, with emphasis on the ideas and work of Herman Potočnik Noordung. Community library and room for numerous cultural associations is also to be arranged a place within the building.
The adequately designed interior of the KSEVT will add up to the cultural life of The Vitanje Commune, of the region and the national entity as a whole - but also interact at an european and global level. With the establishment of this center, an increased acknowledgment of the contribution that many slovene scientists made in space technologies research, will be reached. At the same time, possibilities shall emerge to develop new kinds of technical and cultural education that shall link science and art.
KSEVT will thus operate as a joint factor of all the social, cultural and scientific activities whether in the Vitanje or the more broadly concepted area; with its construction the neighborhood will preserve its existing urbanistic identity, integrity and its unique image.
General project goals are:
- slovene contribution to the science of astronautics/cosmonautics,
- european astronautic memory,
- a cultural foundation for the formation of the Slovene Space Agency (SVA/SSA),
- culturalisation of space and
- combining art and science.
Goals of the future KSEVT are
in heritage:
§ preserving the memory of Herman Potočnik Noordung, a scientist and spaceflight pioneer,
§ preserving documents of the second and third generation of slovene researchers that were and are still included in space technologies research and in space flights,
§ exhibiting and publishing documents of slovene scientists from the fields of space technology in similar institutions all over the world,
§ preserving the memory of world space flight and space research pioneers through cooperation with the world's technical museums and expert astronautics/cosmonautics institutions,
§ gathering books for a library of astronautic/cosmonautic, scientifically-technological literature,
§ compiling a collection of astronautic/cosmonautic memorabilia in cooperation with ESA(Slo.: EVA), RKA(Rus.:ROSCOSMOS) and NASA;
in living science:
§ organising memorial symposia on researchers (explorers) of the first, second and third astronautics/cosmonautics generation,
§ organizing expert symposia on different sciences (medicine, materials, telemetrics, etc.) connected to space research,
§ forwarding information of historically-memorial value and up-to-date information from the fields of astronautics/cosmonautics,
§ including space related topics in elementary school, high school and university level curriculum,
§ cooperation of young researchers and doctor degree holders with space centers and their research laboratories,
§ organisation of expert exhibitons on astronautics/cosmonautics in educational institutions (schools) and organised tours of the SSHPN/HPNMC for schools and students,
§ conferences and
§ workshops.
The project is following also the general outlines of public interest, especially:
- fulfilling »The National Culture Program 2008-2011« in fields of developing public cultural infrastructure, accessibility of culture and employment options,
- a bigger and more quality engagement of public cultural infrastructure in the economic-tourist means of exploitation, more support given by culture to the local and regional development (networking),
- improving the conditions for the progress of the cultural-artistic creativity with supporting cultural tourism development and the development of local communities' creative industries,
- strengthening of direct culture employment and indirect service industry employment, along with strengthening the cultural public accessibility in Slovenia (and elsewhere) to support greater acknowledgment of local communities' cultural creativity , in Slovenia and (and elsewhere),
- protecting intentional use of public domain culture spaces and
- keeping public cultural infrastructure in good shape and enlarging the spatial conditions for cultural and artistic activities.
The accomplishment of KSEVT goals contributes to the wider enviromental development, in compliance with goals of the »National Strategic Reference Frame 2007-2013«. Slovenia thus wishes to contribute to the integration of the natural and cultural potential and make good use of the extreme diversity and density of natural and cultural prepositions. That kind of wealth is, looking from the current position, a not enough exploited/utilised economic and social development potential. Establishing a network of natural and cultural potentials for economic use as for the sustainable protection of natural and cultural heritage is important in ways of quality living enviroment, competitive economy and effective synergy in the fields of culture and enviromental protection. If we understand culture and enviroment as development factors that horizontally and sustainably enter other sector's activities, we shall, along with their development integration, enable the development of culture, improvement of the enviroment, but also encourage development in other areas of interest, especially economy (with service industry in tourism or information technologies) and social domain (enlarging employment options, investing in science).
In that manner an active center of space culturalisation in all the development stages and a memorial center of space technology are being established. The concept of this center is active, considering the architectural point of view or inside activities mainframe, through empasizing the ideas and work of Herman Potočnik Noordung, whom the object is actually dedicated.
The place of KSEVT will establish an active space culturalisation center in all its development stages:
- in understanding space as an entity until the 20th century,
- in the pioneer phase of cosmonautics/astronautics,
- in culturalising space in the first fifty years of space penetration, real space travel,
- in space culturalisation as a theoretical corpus of various sciences and arts, from astronautics, astronomy, geology, biology, chemistry, planet geography and space technology history to all the arts in the evolution of civilization and
- discover new questions in context of space exploration.
Object design as a whole will enable implementation of numerous activities. That will aid the community in gaining a special spirit of its own. The object of KSEVT is designed as a memorial center of space technology, but on the other hand it shall, including its predicted content, ensure The Vitanje Commune a proper cultural center.
The arrangement of different interior spaces in the KSEVT building includes hosting a local library, offering active space to certain local initiatives, making performance of smaller, medium size and bigger social events possible and, of course, enable KSEVT institution program implementation. A focal point of KSEVT (the central place for wider public meetings) operation is the culturalisation of space, ergo, a fundamental reflection of the human role in space/universe, presented via:
- introducing the general public with achievements and influence of space research and space technologies in everyday life and
- presenting civilization connection between science and art in context of space exploration.
The revitalised Vitanje House of Culture that is to become the KSEVT object is, firstly, a part of a housing area, and secondly, a part of the green backbone of Vitanje. Inbetween the object and the main road, an open, paved public space, a »Square« or »Market« (»Trg« in slovenian language) will be constructed, its main purpose being various open-air social events (f.e. Holcerija) and, exceptionally, during bigger events (f.e. Orbital academy), serve as a temporary parking lot.
With its circular layout it shall be equivalently orientated on the nearby Hudinja stream that offers an alternative type of open public spacein the green ambient of the stream. Thuswise is the object, also equivalently, orientated towards the sports ground, representing the third type of open public space. The circular form of the object comes from the oblique reference to Potočnik Noordung's thoughts about organizing habitable space in an universal context, and meanwhile it represents a typological differenciation within the structural area of Vitanje. Related to the neighbouring objects, KSEVT will have potentiated public characteristics and will therefore generate social, cultural and scientific activities. With regard to a somewhat off-center placement of the object in Vitanje's green side at the edge of the inhabited rural area, Vitanje will preserve its existing urbanistic identity. The architectural layout of the KSEVT building, intended, among other things, as a memorial center of space technology, is derived from the first geostationary space station (the »residential/living wheel) plans, as described by Herman Potočnik Noordung in his book back in 1929.
The construction is an abstract representation of a spacecraft, existing and moving in conditions of weightlessness. In the project design a demand was taken into consideration, that the construction should merge with with its surroundings as well as hold the distance from it with its extraterraneal/alien reference.
The building exterior and interior is defined by two cylinders; the bigger lower one, raising in height from the north to the south and the upper smaller one, eating into the lower one at the southern end and rising towards the north. The lower cylinder is supported by the clear glass surface of the entrance glazing. Spatial relation of these two cylinders creates a dynamic image of the building inside the village, upgraded with full and glazed facade rings. Levitation rotation effect of the building at the southern and western side, facing the road as well as the firm terrain anchor at the other side, facing the stream and the hill make the impression of importance, memorable quality of the building and its connection to its surroundings. Also, due to the building's spatial effectiveness, there is a bond established to its main referential frame: artificial gravity effect as a consequence of levitation and rotation. Architectural design of the object is a joint effort of top slovene architect bureaus with international acclaim, that were united in the »Arhitekturno združenje za Vitanje« (Eng. »Architect Association for Vitanje«) or AZZV (Eng. AAFV): Sadar-Vuga architects, Bevk-Perovič architects, Ofis architects and Gregorič-Dekleva architects.
To sum up, additional benefits of the project lie in the indirect links, that may directly or obliquely refer to every member of The Vitanje Commune and cannot be measured in financial numbers. Let us name just a few:
- improvement of the tourist infrastructure,
- introduction of new trends in cultural creativity, in Slovenia and Europe, and thus creating an outstanding progress potential,
- development of scientific, symposial and cultural tourism,
- an increased scale of cultural events as a part of tourist economy,
- improvement of conditions for the tourist development of the region,
- an increased number of visitors to other events in the Commune and its surroundings,
- growing numbers of visitors and greater infrastructure accessibility, which is a quality contribution to a greater cultural creativity acknowledgment and the acknowledgment of the wider area,
- encouragment of cultural, social action of many different creative people circles,
- preservation of cultural heritage and
- raising the quality level of existing economic facilities in the area.
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»Svet, svitanje, Vitanjeee!«
Delo, 28.12.2009
Vsako leto okoli božiča v vasi Vitanje poteka posebno slavje, s katerim umetniška trojica Dragan Živadinov, Miha Turšič in Dunja Zupančič v sodelovanju z občino Vitanje zaznamuje rojstni dan pionirja vesoljskih poletov, Hermana Potočnika Noordunga (rojen je bil 22. decembra).
V dedovi rojstni hiši je danes Potočnikova spominska soba. Avtor knjige Problemi vožnje po vesolju, objavljene leta 1929, je s tem delom navdihoval ruske in ameriške vesoljske raziskovalce in raketne znanstvenike, kot sta bila Wernher Von Braun v ZDA in Sergej Koroljov v Rusiji, je na vodstvu po tej spominski sobi poudaril Dragan Živadinov. Noordungova soba je posvečena prikazu vpliva, ki ga je imel slovenski pionir kozmonavtike na znanstveno preučevanje vesoljskih poletov in na nekatere kultne izdelke popularne kulture, kot je, denimo, Odiseja 2001 Stanleyja Kubricka. Noordung je bil »človek z nesrečnim tuzemnim življenjem in srečnim posmrtnim življenjem«, je njegovo usodo označil Živadinov.
Slavje, ki je sovpadlo s praznovanjem samostojnosti Slovenije, se je po obisku spominske sobe preselilo v kulturni dom, kjer so Vitanjčani skupaj z vesoljskimi umetniki na t. i. orbitalni akademiji, v ambientu razstave Kozmo Sapiens, izvajali večer zdravljic.
Nazdravljali so župan Vitanja Slavko Vetrih, Blaž Šef, Vitanjčan in dramski igralec, avstrijski novinar Herwig G. Höller ter domačini. Živadinov pa je za Vitanje izumil posebno zdravico: »Svet, svitanje, Vitanjeeee!« Večer so popestrili še glasbeniki, med drugim tudi odlični cimbalist Adam Bicskey.
Jela Krečič
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